Paul Graham: Wasteful Things - Fortune

Paul Graham: Wasteful Things

This isn’t just something that happens with programming
languages. It’s a general historical trend. As technologies
improve, each generation can do things that the previous generation
would have considered wasteful. People thirty years ago would be
astonished at how casually we make long distance phone calls.
People a hundred years ago would be even more astonished that a
package would one day travel from Boston to New York via
Memphis.